Episode 7- A town turned against us. Work hard Star Streak!
She sighed as she leaned on the hard metal table of the interrogation room. She was stripped of her gloves, tiara, and earrings. Of course her weapons the first things to go, and the handcuffs were starting to really dig into her wrists.
Her positioning, was awkward at best. Her hands were in front of her, but the cuffs were attached to the edge of the table. She was immobile. Hearing the closing of the door, she was faced with a wide eyed detective she'd never seen before.
"Miss..."
"Spica."
"Right, Miss Spica. I'm going to be asking you a few questions." Folding her arms across the table she tilted her head to the side.
"Captain Fanzone is the one who took me in. Can't he ask these questions? I didn't give myself up to him, just to be interviewed by some detective I don't know at all." The detective looked even more nervous than before. Spica turned to the one way window. And smiled.
"Captain Fanzone! I know you're there!" Waving her hand a little underneath her shackled wrists. Spica smiled and she knew she was staring directly at him. She could feel his aura right there... And, as she predicted, the door to the interrogation room slammed open and Captain Fanzone stormed in.
"Alright Missy! I wanna know exactly what's going on." Spica smiled and leaned back against the uncomfortable chair.
"Well... where should I start? Probably the fact that we're not the ones who've been behind these homicides. We're hunting her down. We don't know if she calls herself anything quite yet. But right now we've been calling her The Shard."
"Vigilante business is against the law."
"It's not vigilante, because the police can't do anything against her. This goes way higher than the police can handle. The shard isn't human. She's literally a manifestation of chaos itself. She doesn't exist in this dimension, in any dimension. She just, is. And if the dimensions would ever unite again, she needs to be destroyed." Fanzone gave Spica another hard stare and sighed.
"This is why I hate magic."
"Let me tell you a story." Spica sighed and gently placed her hand over the cuffs holding her wrists in place. Mind wandering back over the events of the day before.
-Theme Music-
-This Is A Flashback!-
Spica was just talking with Prowl, discussing Kurosawa's role in the series Faster Than A Kiss.
"Well I'm assuming he's going to be one of Kazuma's top rivals in Fumino's love."
"That doesn't make much sense. She doesn't really seem to hold feeling one way or another toward him. I get the feeling someone will come in later and HE'LL be Kazuma's big rival."
"Maybe... We don't know much about his family..."
"We don't know ANYTHING about his family."
"True, so maybe he has a younger brother or something."
"Oh! Wouldn't it be funny if he was a little brat? Like all lippy and rude?" Prowl chuckled a little before nodding.
"That would be humorous..." Spica smiled a little, a wistful look on her face. Prowl's slight grin faded.
"Tenshi, do you really trust me?" Spica squeezed her eyes shut for a second, fighting a painful throb.
"Yes."
"Truly?" Spica sighed and looked to Prowl, taking extra care to look him in the visor.
"With my life."
"Were did you get that locket?" Spica froze, her gaze immediately shooting down.
"What locket?"
"The gold one, the one that you always wear while in civilian form."Her hand subconsciously running along her choker, Spica sighed.
"It was a gift..." Glancing out of the corner of her eye, Prowl had one of those bizarre vibes coming off of him that told Spica how uncomfortable he was.
"A gift?" Spica smiled a little, an idea for an alibi forming in her head.
"Yes, A boy actually. He had a crush on me, he got it for my birthday. I was flattered, so I took it, and I aced a quiz I never studied for after, hence, It's become a lucky charm." Spica grinned as he stiffened a little, looks like the big brother instinct was kicking in; the perfect distraction from pushing an issue...
"Is that so?"
"Yep."
Prowl turned to look into the distance. It wasn't the big brother instinct. Not at all.
Some faceless boy shyly handing Tenshi a little golden locket and saying a silly love confession, and she'd clip it around her neck and thank him. Making the boy's face fluster and he'd ask her out.
And then, she'd smile, she'd truly naturally smile, at this faceless boy. Prowl was annoyed just at the thought. He wanted to be the one to make her smile, and some simple little human boy could do something he couldn't?
'Wow... Jealous much Prowl?'
The voice vibrated throughout his processor. For a second he was thinking that it was a type of conscience that Cybertronians could develop. But that didn't make sense, According to Rosalyn Conscience's are supposed to sound like yourself. This voice sounded like a little girl. Her voice seemed a little hazy, like it was constantly hoarse from shouting all the time.
Jealous? Ridiculous. He'd only been around Tenshi for a little while. No longer than 3 orns He didn't know much about her at all!
'You know her favorite manga is Fruits Basket. Her favorite food is cheeseburgers. Her favorite color is orange, she one of the very few people that can pull off orange. She used to love Video Games, and she still somewhat does, but not enough to prefer hanging out with Bumblebee. You know she appreciates Bulkhead's art. You know that when she was 13 she was brought from her home to train to be a star senshi. You know that she's seen war, and has left with trauma she doesn't let anyone see.
But you should know so much more.
You know NOTHING really.'
But he wanted to know. He wanted to know so much more about her.
"Prowl?"He snapped out of his thoughts and looked to Spica again.
"Yes?" Spica smiled and stood
"I should be going now."
-scene change-
Tenshi sighed as she walked though downtown. She looked to her left and saw a small chapel. Her already melancholic frown deepened. A coffin was being loaded into a hearse. One of the victims. She knew it.
She needed to blow off some steam.
"You..." Looking to her side she saw one of the women at the funeral walk up to me, anger lacing her features.
"You're one of them aren't you?"
"What?"
"One of those horrible girls that did this? You look just like the orange one." Tenshi pulled back and stared at the woman in horror.
"O-Of course not. I would never do something to end the life of another." The woman looked her up and down. Clearly not believing her.
"Your kind are not welcome here." Tenshi's gaze hardened.
"I was just leaving." And that she did. Just by walking through the city she ran into four more people telling her that she Must be the orange girl and that they were going to call the police on her. Only twice did the police actually come. One time the Police man had been distracted with a mugging, and the second time a thief, Tenshi had slipped out both times unnoticed.
It was at this point that Tenshi decided that they couldn't be silent heroes. If they didn't get out in the open and make their case clear, horrible things would happen. Donning her transformation Tenshi had found Officer Fanzone, the only police officer she'd rust enough to do this to.
"I'm here to turn myself in."
-end flashback!-
"We have to stop the Shard at all costs." Tenshi kept her eyes on her hand as she told her tale. Focusing her energy into undoing the lock on the handcuffs. The glow was near impossible to see. Such a low frequency couldn't be detected.
"So this er... Shard, She's the one who killed those four civilians..."
"Yes. None of us are sure what they're after though."
"Well Missy, I think I'm gonna need to see this Shard and her Robot buddy before Your friends can publicly clear their names."
"If I can have my earrings back I'll call Vega and tell her to put the camera on her goggles on for the next time she appears."
-Scene change-
"Ami. Hey Ami?"
"What is it Brunet?"
"Does Bumblebee trust you?"
"I don't think so. Not after that stupid report. Why do you care?"
"I'm bored..."
"Do your rounds."
"We can't DO rounds anymore, people will be looking to the rooftops much more, just looking for us."
"Then go write a fake letter to your old boyfriend." Hotaru's gaze narrowed as Ami brought him up.
"Don't mention Baruti. He's forgotten about me, He's found a new wonderful girlfriend. And Bumblebee's human form looks like a blond version of him. It pisses me off." Ami held her hands up in surrender.
"Okay, Okay, I concede. Jeez..."
Hotaru's glare never let up until she was back in her room. Sighing, she walked up to the mirror on her dresser and silently gasped.
When had she been crying?
A beeping noise in her right ear made her jump. After catching her breath she activated her communicator.
"This is Vega."
="Vega, It's Spica. The next time we see the shard I need you to put the camera on your VR goggles on constant record. Clear?"=
"Crystal, Spica-Spica."
="Good, Over and out."=
-Scene Change-
"Ms. Hoshino? Are you okay?" Mamoru glanced down to see the small blonde girl tugging on her jazz pants.
"Eh? Why do you ask Millie?" Millie and a few of the other students who had to stay late gathered around her and sat on the floor, expecting a story.
"Well, we could help!" One of the boys, Johnny exclaimed.
"Er... well, if you all insist." Millie sat down in front of the seven or so children.
"Well, my friend Tenshi has been having allot of troubles lately. She's been struggling with allot of issues. A woman that seems out to ruin her life, she's started to like a boy that used to be an old friend of hers, and ...weirdly... She's been having these headaches. She's been trying to hide them from us. And by us I mean a few of our other friends and myself. But I get the feeling something bad is coming. And It's because of those things."
"Stop it!" Tammie, an African-American girl stood up and gestured widely with her hands, as if to emphasize herself. "Stop the bad thing from happening!"
"Yeah!" Deirdre, a red haired girl stood up and punched the air in excitement. "If her headaches point to it, make the headaches stop!"
Mamoru smiled. It was always good to listen to a child's advise, You'll never know how humorous it can be.
-Scene Change-
On the top of Sumdac Systems, a young woman was perched. Her skin a light green, hair and eyes a deep black. This was a high-ranking Glimmer. This Glimmer knew what she was doing. Opening her arms, millions of black spore shot out through the city.
These spore would fester on whomever touched them. Turning every ounce of negative emotion into a searing hatred. Those you once only slightly envied would now become enemies. Friends would turn enemies. And the Star Streak Senshi would be No.1 on every hit list.
The process was slow, and it would take about a day to come into full effect. But her mistress would be pleased with the delicious negative energy she'd be manufacturing for her.
This Glimmer disappeared into the building, figuring she'll be safe there.
Time for the revolution to begin.
-Scene Change-
Spica sighed in relief as her handcuffs were undone and she was allowed her stuff back. Her wrists were really starting to hurt.
In a flash, she felt something happen. An enormous spike in dark energy. All in one moment she had seen a black ball of something start to faze into the room, grabbed Captain Fanzone and shoved him under the table, and fired a small globe of energy out at it.
"What. Was. That."
"Sorry about that Captain. I had to get rid of this thing before it did something bad." The smoking globe had drooped to the ground, and had stopped moving. Spica lowered her hand and lifted the globe into her gloved hand.
"This thing was giving off such a chaotic energy vibe I can't even begin to describe. I'll have to have Vega analyze this when I get back home. You might want to keep an eye out for these things. Just in case they come around again."
"Right. Fuzzy black ball floating in the air. Definitely dangerous." Spica smirked a bit sadly at his sarcasm. Everyone was treated like this to him. She wasn't treated differently for not being Sari. Best part about having a foul tempered cop as a friend.
-Scene Change-
Yume filled out her time card and left the cafe with a sigh. Things were looking glum. At least five people today asked for a different waitress. That's never good for tips. And it was all due to that stupid report.
If their names weren't cleared soon, horrible things would happen. Becoming monsters in the public eye would be the worst thing...
She started to muse over the issues in their team. Maybe the other star teams all were just acting like they fit together perfectly...Maybe they really were just, all that was left in the dimensions...
Noticing something flash out of the corner of her eye Yume attempted to materialize her sai and come at the thing, whatever it was.
Her sai connected with something she knew was neither human, animal, nor robot.
-Scene Change-
Ami shrieked in surprise as a dark ball of energy shot straight towards her. She quickly ducked and the thing had missed her and instead lodged itself into an important looking man in a white suit and pink sunglasses.
-Scene Change-
Vega took care not to touch the two, completely pulverized piles of dark objects. Polaris looked worriedly over her shoulder.
"Hota-chan... What are they?"
"Lemme analyze 'em first."
Pressing a button on her right earring she started to manipulate the settings on her goggles to analyze the defeated objects.
-Scene Change-
Prowl was alone, deep in meditation as he sensed something approaching him. Pulling out one of his shuriken, he spun to face the being. The small, black sphere would have slammed into his Chassis if he hadn't jumped out of the way, less than an astrosecond before. The strange sphere had eventually hit the ground and immediately vanished.
Prowl took to the trees less than a nanoklick later. Whatever that thing was, it couldn't be good.
-Scene Change-
Bumblebee was brooding, letting his mind drift to Rosalyn. She'd left early, saying that her father wanted her home, before she'd left she'd given him an unsure smile telling him she'd make sure to be early tomorrow to "Kick his sorry butt in Goo Zombies XII" He really wished she'd be around more often. It was... really annoying how she couldn't ever be around anyone sometimes.
"Heya Lil' Buddy, what's wrong?"
"Nothing Bulkhead, I'm fine." Why was Bulkhead butting into his business again? It was really irritating.
"No, you're not, your sulking."
"Look, Bulkhead, can you just leave me alone? I'm in a bad mood, I don't wanna snap at anyone." That was a lie. In fact, he REALLY wanted to snap at someone, just to let himself vent. Bulkhead looked to Bumblebee with worried optics and silently left for his room.
"Sure Lil' Buddy. But hey, If you're having issues, you can always talk to me. You get that right?"
"Yeah, I know Big Guy." Bulkhead smiled and left back into his room/Studio. All of his happy moments were in there.
As well as something he didn't know was in there.
A little protection that an old friend had bestowed on his room, as well as on all of their rooms.
-Scene Change-
"So What are those things Vega?" Neverland sat down on the couch of their apartment.
"Well, I was able to salvage some data from the ones that me and Polaris pulverized."
"Polaris and I" Polaris muttered to herself.
"Spica-Spica's was burnt to a crisp, all the data in that one was corrupted, if not completely destroyed."
"Sorry." Spica sighed and leaned against the wall.
"It's okay, I retrieved some data from the one that Neverland stabbed and if these three are anything to go by they're all programmed the same."
"And what are they programmed to DO Brunet?" Vega's mouth tightened into a fine line.
"You know how if you feel a certain emotion it releases a chemical into your bloodstream? Like fear or anger? Well, these things, and I don't know how, burrow themselves into the body cavity and attach themselves onto a blood vessel. There they manipulate the chemicals in the blood stream so that every negative emotion and outlook on a person are intensified. As well as all positive feelings are dulled and dulled until the being starts to quite literally thrive in hatred. I'm assuming that these things are the result of a glimmer. More than likely they've infected the whole city."
"So basically, until we find the Glimmer and take it down, we're going to be on the hit lists of the public, no matter what we do." Spica put her fingers to her temples and gently started to massage them.
"We're screwed." Rigel sighed as she collapsed onto a couch.
"Tenshi love, Are you alright?" Mamoru placed a hand onto Spica's shoulder who visibly flinched.
"I'm fine, Just a headache." Vega tossed her a small bottle of Ibuprofen.
"Take three Spica-Spica." Spica nodded and opened the bottle before claiming she'd lie down for awhile in her room.
"What do you think is wrong with Tenshi? We all know now that they aren't normal headaches." Polaris sighed as she sat next to Rigel on the couch.
"I don't know." Vega sighed and deactivated her VR goggles. "I've been covertly scanning her lately, and it seems like there's a dark energy that she's been holding back. For a long time too."
"Define 'Long time'" Neverland whispered.
"About as long as we've been senshi. She's been really good about hiding it though. Maybe even Sailor Moon Kingdom didn't catch it..."
"So what? The headaches are this thing trying to break loose?" Polaris whispered in worry.
"I guess." Vega shrugged.
"What can we do about it?" Neverland straightened her goggles and sighed.
"Can we do ANYTHING about it Brunet?"
"Nothing I can see. Whatever it is, it's up to her."
Unbeknownst to the four Star Senshi, their leader had heard every word. She collapsed on her bed and sighed sadly.
"Stardust... Leave me alone..."
-End Credits-
Sorry it's been awhile guys! My beta said she'd...well... beta a few weeks ago, and nothing has com out of it, so I think I might have to keep posting these things while being my own beta.
Oy... nine pages of boring exposition. But I had to get a few things moving. Revealing a few things about Star Streak (Whom I'm very sure by now no one really cares about) Setting up the public for the next few chapters, as well as showing a little more of the few things that Sari left behind before she became Spica. Anyway, Next chapter will be long. And Gorey. So if it ends up Gorier than I intended, than I'm gonna have to bump this up to Mature.
Anyway, Hope you enjoyed chapter seven!
